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QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 10:15 PM) Mine is the theme music of Halloween. Same here. When I bought my phone the guy that sold it to me had that as his ringtone and I immediatly knew what I was getting.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jun 21, 2005 -> 04:40 PM) It costs me $50 each week to fill mine. If I let mine get all the way down to empty, it takes $70-$80 to fill it back up. Luckily I don't drive it a whole lot and a tank can last me a month or more.

***Bad tech support joke warning*** Tech support: What's on your desktop? Customer: My keyboard, mousepad, a bottle of water... I would post mine but they are pretty boring and plain. At work I have a picture from a Stephen King book The Gunslinger. At home I have the Iguchi "immigration" ad. Both are centered in the middle of the screen with a black background and a handful of icons on the left side... :sleep The one difference I've noticed between mine and everyone else that has posted a pic is that my taskbar is at the top. I can't stand having it at the bottom. I always set it to auto-hide so that I get a full view of the screen. Then when I'm not using my mouse (which is a lot being a mainframe programmer) I'll just stick the icon in the lower right-hand corner and it basically disappears.

Grade school: navy blue and gold Jr high: purple and gold (later changed to match high school colors) High school: Orange and black I really didn't mind the orange and black since a lot of the time the dominant color was black and the orange was used for trim. We actually have to schools in the same district that have red and black. I think the worst ones around are either purple and yellow or green and gold...

QUOTE(mreye @ Jun 21, 2005 -> 08:04 AM) DICTIONARY OF WOMEN'S ENGLISH: 1. Yes = No 2. No = Yes 3. Maybe = No The email I got said: 1. Yes = No 2. No = No 3. Maybe = No Seems to fit better...

I had a woman like this in my neighborhood when I was growing up. If we stepped one foot onto her property for any reason, she would yell at us. The biggest problem was that her yard bordered a large empty field that we would play in all the time. She tried to claim the field was part of her property until informed otherwise. One time she did steal a ball my friend and I were playing with. It turned into a shouting match between her and my friend's mom before the cops showed up. Seeing police cars in their driveway eventually became a common occurance. Mostly because she insisted that we were trespassing. The cops basically told us that she was a pyscho and to just ignore her...

Luckily my wife and I keep our music collections seperate or else I could list pages of embarassing tapes and cds that I "own". Vanilla Ice, New Kids, Boys 2 Men, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Criss Cross... :puke I made the mistake of joining a music club when I was younger and was pretty much forced to buy a handful of CD's that I didn't really want. The only reason I joined the club was so I could get Garage Days Re-revisited by Metallica. I would have to say the most embarassing tape that I own would be one that I got when I was about 12 or 13 and before I was really "into" music. It was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack that I got free from Pizza Hut. The first CD that I ever owned was Megadeath. I bit of a change...

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 12, 2005 -> 08:34 PM) Friday, July 1st will be my first visit to Summerfest. We plan to drive there around mid day. Any suggestions on where to park? I imagine the lots get full early, or they can't possibly accomodate all the cars. My wife and I went up there last year and had no problems finding a place to park right near one of the entrances. There were a lot of people coming and going and the layout of the thing is huge so there were plenty of different places to park. It's the driving around the city that really got me. I just followed the crowd (and the signs) and luckily got in and out without any major trouble.

The first time I saw the "tiny house" one I thought it was a real show. Sadly, I've seen some pretty bad commercials where I almost hope/expect it to be a Geico commercial. I always liked the one where the guy that sounds like he's reading a tele-prompter is holding the gecko in his hand and then give a "thumbs-up" and the gecko falls to the floor.

My parents live in a 5-bedroom house with a full basement and two garages. One of the bedrooms is full of stuff and the other 3 (not including theirs) are about half full. They are still usable as bedrooms and you can walk around them and see the floor and stuff. Not nearly as bad as the picutres shown on that site… The basement and both garages are pretty scary. There was one point in time that they had two cars in the one garage that hadn’t run in years. My mom and I finally convinced my dad to get rid of them and the garage was actually usable for a couple of years. It has since been filled back up again. Just a month or so ago I did manage to drag out a few boxes of my childhood toys and have been making a pretty good profit by selling them all on Ebay. My only regret was that one of the cars they got rid of was a seventy-something Charger. It would have taken a lot of time and money to fix up but it could’ve been something nice. As an only child, I am fearing the day my parents leave me and I am left to empty out that house all by myself...

The only thing I can say is didn't they own a collar and a leash or chain? If she was that worried about the kid being around the dogs and didn't want them in the basement, why not chain them up to a tree or something outside???

I'll be soo glad when December finally rolls around and my middle daughter will finally be allowed to ride without a car seat. 3 kids (2 in car seats) = not much room and makes it very difficult to buckle seat belts...

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 02:22 PM) CONGRATS!!! You post at the same ridiculously slow rate as I do!!!! We can't talk about a slow rate of posting until I join the conversation...

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) Pfffttt... ask anyone that's met me.. my bark is much worse than my bite. You know you're in trouble when you see her finger waving though...

I got my very first, brand-new, store-bought bike 3 years ago for Christmas. Every other one I've ever owned were all garage sale specials...

Still not quite as bad as the guy that stole a military tank and wrecked some massive havoc. The only reason they were able to stop him was because he got stuck on one of those wall dividers in the middle of a highway. I see it on Worlds Most Amazing Videos all the time...

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ May 26, 2005 -> 11:29 AM) I'm a firm believer in 'catch up sleep'. Once every 10 days or so, I will collapse and get like 9 hours. That's when my body tells me I need it. That's what weekends are for.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 26, 2005 -> 09:19 AM) ...not only that; I'm pretty sure you need to be at least 21 years of age to drive a rental. The last time I rented a car the required age was 23...

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ May 25, 2005 -> 04:16 PM) I usually get 4-6 on weeknights and 7-8 on weekends. Mostly it's because I never want to go to bed at night. That's usually when I am most awake... It's 1:30 AM and I am here reading this message board instead of sleeping like I should be... :banghead OK, one more game of solitare and then I'm done.

I usually get 4-6 on weeknights and 7-8 on weekends. Mostly it's because I never want to go to bed at night. That's usually when I am most awake...

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines Looks like it was 2 Sox fans and 1 Cub fan. Sadly, all three are related...

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ May 21, 2005 -> 10:52 PM) You can get them for around 1 grand I think. We got ours for 2 gs but it is a little nicer than the average mower. It's definitely worth it if you have a big lawn. You can get a used one for 1/10th of that... My parents have a tractor and back when I was still living with them my wife (we weren't married yet) always like to drive it around. She didn't really care about cutting the grass, she just liked to drive the damn tractor...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2005 -> 01:27 PM) Christopher Walken as Han Solo? Damn that would have changed the whole series. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7907626/ Ugh, that would've been horrible...

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 20, 2005 -> 10:52 AM) 7 pages already.... 7 pages? You need to adjust your settings. I only see 3...

There are a few more interesting things in the Dells besides waterparks and mini-putt. I've been there more times than I can remember and still have plans to go back again. For my family, we like to camp so we towed our pop-up to a campground up there. Much cheaper than a hotel. The first couple of times we were there we did do the waterpark/carnival rides and mini-putt. There is also a HUGE go-cart place which the kids thought was great. (This is mostly our reasoning for going back.) My wife fell in love with the deer park(first time she's ever got to touch "wild" deer) and the horse-back riding places. There are a couple of 'gimmicky' places like the wax museum and the "haunted houses" but overall we had a good time. I do agree that it's mostly a family place and can get expensive quickly.